Kevin Renard Posey Jr. was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma on November 8, 1987, to parents Sheila and Kevin Renard Posey Sr. Posey grew up listening to a variety of music influenced by his parents. With a growing curiosity for sound, he would mentally deconstruct songs that played in the house and on the radio to figure out how they were constructed. At age 4, he fell in love with playing the keyboard and his father taught him how to freestyle rap around the age of 5. With these skills, Posey continued to practice and build his craft for rapping and creating sounds.

From 2010-2012, he attended the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma and received a degree in Music Production. During this time he developed his sound and began producing for local artists as well as himself. Posey released his debut album on streaming services Oct 2015, titled Fall in Love. Written, produced, composed, arranged, mixed, and mastered himself. The sonics in the album were inspired by love that had been missing in his life and from the love he understood from his own experiences. In 2020 Posey released a single with Chozxn, a rising star out of New Zealand and the States. The single, titled “How To Do It”, hit no. 16 on the iTunes top 200 Hip Hop charts. He then teamed up with New Zealand’s own Scizzorhands the DJ to create a joint EP and duo group IRON FLOWERZ (produced by Scizzorhands). The EP was released the following year in 2021. He also took a stab at releasing an original score EP titled The Story of Francis in October 2021 and started producing for up-and-coming singer/songwriter, rapper Anastasiya. Her EP, titled Russian AK was released Fall 2021.

Posey’s 3rd album titled Yellow Roses was released in 2022. “This album is a complex nuance of vulnerabilities as an artist who has to paint with a paintbrush that has all of its' bristles.”

Join us in conversation as we discuss his album “Yellow Roses”, living in New Zealand, and his love of composing for film.

Website: kevinposey.com

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Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/KevinPoseylvl3

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinposey7831

Other: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7838835/

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LaToya Tillis is an American singer/ songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma. During her childhood, she recorded and performed with various bands (Leon Rollerson Band) and singing competitions including winning a spot on Lonnie Liggitt’s “Tulsa’s Best and Brightest” compilation CD in 2005 and 2006. After graduating high school, LaToya attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and completed her Bachelor’s Degree at The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma in Oklahoma City majoring in Music Business and Performance.

In 2015, she played Effie White at Tulsa Performing Arts Center’s “Dream Girls in Concert”. This role made an indelible mark on her career as an artist as she didn’t believe she could pull off the role and did not audition for the part. One day during rehearsal, Musical Director Machele Dill cleared the rehearsal room and told her “you can’t hide anymore”.

Join us in conversation as we explore her journey toward her most recent endeavor: the MASTERPIECE SOUND STUDIOS: Cover Song Contest - Grand Finale Showcase in Detroit, Michigan (in partnership with Sony Music Publishing): https://www.masterpiecesoundstudios.com/coversongcontest/.

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